Visual Agnosia: Disorders of Object Recognition and What They Tell Us about

by Martha J. Farah

Book Overview

Visual Agnosia is a comprehensive and up-to-date review of disorders of higher vision that relates these disorders to current conceptions of higher vision from cognitive science, illuminating both the neuropsychological disorders and the nature of normal visual object recognition. Brain damage can lead to selective problems with visual perception, including visual agnosia the inability to recognize objects even though elementary visual functions remain...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026206135X
• ISBN13: 9780262061353
• Release Date: July 1990
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Ezxactly what I was looking for.

With brain damage to my parietal and occipital lobes, this book game me more information and definition to my condition that I was looking for. It is part of my 'brain' library as I recover.